Microsoft Lync 2013 Plain & Simple

Chapter 5. Starting a conversation

In this section:

• Sending an IM

• Marking a conversation as “high importance”

• Changing the font of your IM

• Hiding the IM area

• Inviting additional contacts to a conversation

• Creating tabbed conversations

• Popping a tabbed conversation to a separate window

• Closing tabbed conversations

• Sending and receiving files within an IM

• Escalating an IM to a voice or video call

One of the first tasks you will likely want to accomplish after you’ve signed in to Microsoft Lync 2013 is to locate a colleague or coworker and start a conversation.

Lync 2013 provides a number of modalities from which to initiate a conversation as well as a host of other pointers that are designed to give you a good idea of which modality to use in any given situation. ...